Some of the very basic needs for .NET applications to stay competitive in today’s market are to be extremely responsive and scalable. The bottleneck in the way of achieving these benchmarks is your relational database. This is a two fold bottleneck, first the reads from disk are very inefficient and time consuming. Secondly, you cannot…

The database tier based on traditional RDBMS has proven to be the biggest bottleneck in the way of achieving competitive response times for applications. This has forced the application vendors to look for alternatives that can provide improved performance. One such alternative is storing data in a distributed cache. From the available cache technologies you…